HOWARD COX
Howard Joe Cox, a sax player at heart;
His hair is so cute with middle part.
His continuous fuss and gripe to all
Makes him well known through the hall.

Howard was the photographer for the 1939 - 41 Carrollton High School Yearbooks.

Howard Cox Exchanges Vows With Mary Katharine Fisher

The Highland Park Methodist Church was the setting Saturday evening for the marriage of Miss Mary Katharine Fisher and Howard Joseph Cox.  Dr. Marshall T. Steel officiated.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Fisher, 4017 Greenbrier. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. I. H. Cox, Cox Lane.
The bride given in marriage by her father, wore a dress of white marquisette and imported lace over satin. It was designed with a deep set-in yoke oulined by a double row of lace folds.
The fitted lace bodice fastened down the back with tiny self-covered buttons and the long lace sleeves tapered to petal points at her hands.  The full skirt, worn over hoops, was designed with a deep lace peplum and extended into a formal-length train.
Her fingertip veil of imported illusion was caught to a half-hat of illusion and seed pearls. She carried a bouquet of French carnations centered with a large white orchid.
The bridegroom's sister, Miss Joy Cox, was maid of honor and Mrs. Donald Aton was matron of honor.  Walter Sorensen was best man, and the ushers were Dr. John Wyatt Fisher, borther of the biride from New Orleans, L.a.; Richmond Cook and D. W. Pickett, Beaumont.
The wedding music was presented by Mrs. Elbert Marshall, organist, and Wayne Conner, soloist.
A reception was held in the garden of the Fisher home. Mrs. Jack L. Blasingame cut the wedding cake and Mrs. John Henry Wall registered guests. Other members of the house party were Mrs. Nickols Kokles, Mrs. Robert Penn, Misses Mary Frances Cox, Alice Cochran, Peggy Stanley and Mildred Good.
As the couple left on a wedding trip to Gatlinburg, Tenn., and Asheville, N.C., the bride was wearing a navy silk Shantung suit with a white hand-embroidered blouse. Her accessories were navy and she wore a white orchid.
Mr. and Mrs. Cox are graduates of SMU. She was a member of Sigma Kappa social sorority and Iota Epsilon honor society. He was a member of Delta Sigma Pi, professional businss fraternity, and Beta Gamma Sigma honorary business fraternity.  He served a year in the Army.
The newlyweds will be at home in Franklin, La.

The Dallas Morning News, June 11, 1950

Howard Joseph Cox Sr. JULY 28, 1924 – JUNE 18, 2018 Howard Joseph Cox, Sr. Born in Dallas, Texas, July 28th, 1924. Preceded in death by parents Isaac Howard Cox (1882-1968) and Mary Eleanora Harry Cox (1889-1959), son John Thomas Cox (died in infancy 1962), sister Eleanor Jane Joy Cox Giles (1922-1997) and wife of 59 years, Mary Katharine Fisher Cox (1924-2009). Survived by son Joe Cox and daughter in law Ruth Tenison Hogg Cox of Los Alamos New Mexico and daughter Kitty Cox Cunningham of Tyler, Texas; grandsons John Pierce Cox and daughter in law Julia Felder of Santa Barbara, CA, Timothy Louis Cox of Los Alamos, NM, Chip Cunningham of Boston, MA, Austin Cunningham of Nashville TN, and Waylon Cunningham of Maryville, TN. In his memoir, Mr. Cox wrote that he observed his 13th birthday in 1937 by helping his father and uncle load oats on a horse-drawn wagon at the Cox Brothers Dairy. After graduation from Carrollton High School, he took speech lessons at the O.D. Woodrow School of Elocution and Physical Culture in 1944 (and still has the pin to prove it). He graduated from Southern Methodist University in 1949 with honors and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration as a member of Beta Gamma Sigma Fraternity. He received an Honorable Discharge from the Armed Forces of the United States of America, First Lieutenant INF USAR, Army of the United States in 1953 and was awarded a Bronze Star for action in the Korean War. Howard and Mary were married at University Park United Methodist Church on June 30, 1950. The family was active at Cochran Chapel United Methodist, until joining University Park UMC in 1971. He was employed by Southern Provident Life Insurance Company (Treasurer) and later by Machinists Tools & Supplies, both of Dallas. After forty years as a member of the Dallas Chapter, Texas Society of Certified Public Accounts, he was presented a lifetime membership in 1994. Howard and Mary were members of the Mr. and Mrs. Class at University Park UMC for about 40 years. He had a great tenor voice and sang in the choirs at both Cochran Chapel and University Park. Those who knew him recognized his lifelong faith and commitment to Christ. He was active in Gideons International, Dallas Central Camp, for four decades and served as State of Texas Treasurer. Shortly after the death of Mary Katharine, he moved to The Overlook, the new apartment complex on the C.C. Young campus, where he made many friends and thoroughly enjoyed the social life of the community, singing with “The Young’n’s.” Having a great love of Dallas history, he was an active member of the Dallas Pioneer Association and the Dallas Historical Society. He wrote and presented articles at conferences and, in 2009, presented “Dallas Dairies”, perhaps his favorite research project, at the 10th Legacies Dallas History Conference. In recent years, Mr. Cox traveled with the family on vacations organized by grandson John Pierce Cox. The family groups traveled to New Orleans, Merida in Mexico, Siracusa Sicily, Islay in Scotland, Paris and Edinburgh. Howard traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland, accompanied by his grandson, Waylon Cunningham, for the wedding of John Pierce Cox and Julia Felder, October ,2017. His grandsons remember how “Gramps” would find a couch, put up his feet and read his book, hoodie over his head and reading glasses perched on his nose. Dear friend George Lockett drove Mr. Cox to the Cooper Fitness Center three times a week for some 20 years, which kept him in excellent physical condition. O God of grace and glory, we remember before you this day our brother Howard. We thank you for giving him to us, his family and friends, to know and to love as a companion on our earthly pilgrimage. In your boundless compassion, console us who mourn. Give us faith to see in death the gate of eternal life, so that in quiet confidence we may continue our course on earth, until, by your call, we are reunited with those who have gone before; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Arrangements through Sparkman/Hillcrest. Memorial Service at Cochran Chapel United Methodist Church, interment in Webb Chapel Cemetery, Webb Chapel Road at Brincrest.

Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams